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Roberta Breitmore at “3 Evenings” by Somerset House

“Constructing Roberta is a live performance that finds the character navigating later life, at a moment when ideas of truth and identity have been further complicated by the rituals and trends of online culture. The audience is invited to consider what it means to construct — and to perform — an authentic self in a world of doubles, filters and constant self-presentation. The artist asks ‘Maybe we are all Roberta?'”

Lynn Hershman Leeson: First Person Plural at Seoul Museum of Art

"Responding to the Seoul Museum of Art’s 2026 exhibition theme, “Technology,” this exhibition presents a comprehensive survey of six decades of artistic practice by Lynn Hershman Leeson (b. 1941), a pioneering American female media artist and...

Duchamp Talks: Bradley Bailey, Alex Da Corte, and Lynn Hershman Leeson on the Alter Ego at MoMA

"Join acclaimed artists Alex Da Corte and Lynn Hershman Leeson, alongside art historian Bradley Bailey, as they reflect on Marcel Duchamp’s subversive deployment of an alter ego and his expansive views on art and authorship. This event launches...
Altman Siegel Announces Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Third Solo Exhibition with the Gallery

Altman Siegel Announces Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Third Solo Exhibition with the Gallery

“At the center of Hershman Leeson’s latest exhibition is an antibody engineered to reverse aging… As with previous bodies of work, Hershman Leeson has preempted foundational advancements in technology ...
ZE Books to publish “Private I: A Memoir” By Lynn Hershman Leeson

ZE Books to publish “Private I: A Memoir” By Lynn Hershman Leeson

“Lynn Hershman Leeson’s universe is the super-radical and unstoppably empowered kindergarten of all our wildest dreams: where no limit exists to our optimism and curiosity, where even our intellects can ...
Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991

Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991

"A dialogue emerges between the human and the technological, evoking the hybrid figure of the cyborg. This connection is explored in the exhibition through works that present a new relationship between ...
Lynn Hershman Leeson earns ranking on ArtReview’s Power 100 List for 2024

Lynn Hershman Leeson earns ranking on ArtReview’s Power 100 List for 2024

"Gauging spheres of influence and schools of thought is about more than momentary fads. The Power 100 list is an annual tally of who and what made art happen during the past 12 months. It’s a structural ...
Vital Signs: Artists and the Body at MoMA

Vital Signs: Artists and the Body at MoMA

“Behind this mask, another mask; I will never be done with removing all these faces,” wrote artist and poet Claude Cahun in 1930. Throughout the 20th century, artists have imagined the body and ideas of ...
Exhibition: Vital Signs  Artists and the Body at MoMA, Nov 3, 2024–Feb 22, 2025

Exhibition: Vital Signs Artists and the Body at MoMA, Nov 3, 2024–Feb 22, 2025

“Behind this mask, another mask; I will never be done with removing all these faces,” wrote artist and poet Claude Cahun in 1930. Throughout the 20th century, artists have imagined the body and ideas of ...
Exhibition: Access Kafka at Jewish Museum of Berlin

Exhibition: Access Kafka at Jewish Museum of Berlin

One hundred years after Franz Kafka’s death, the exhibition puts key aspects of his legacy – still relevant today – into dialogue with works of contemporary art. The exhibition asks how, in their works, ...
Exhibition: Grotesque  at Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, October 5 – November 30, 2024

Exhibition: Grotesque at Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, October 5 – November 30, 2024